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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






2. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






3. What type of people need extra protein?






4. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






5. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






6. When does BMR increase?






7. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






8. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






9. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






10. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






11. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






12. Fats can lead to some medical problems






13. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






14. When does BMR decrease?






15. What function is vitamin A?






16. What is RDA of protein?






17. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






18. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






19. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






20. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






21. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






22. Where can you get more vitamin D?






23. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






24. What does DASH stand for?






25. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






26. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






27. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






28. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






29. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






30. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






31. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






32. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






33. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






34. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






35. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






36. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






37. What function is vitamin D?






38. What is normal albumin levels?






39. How many calories/gram is protein?






40. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






41. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






42. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






43. What are healthy sources of fats?






44. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






45. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






46. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






47. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






48. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






49. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






50. What is the function of vitamin C?